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Rae Chilton
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RSciTech, school physics technician for 23 years, enthusiastic about STEM clubs, autistic.
I really like rubber ducks (not a euphamism - actual toy rubber ducks.)

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Tidy, uniform trays make happy.
Eight trays of equipment for an electric circuits practical.
June 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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As part of enrichment week, tomorrow our Year 8 students are going to try to solve the murder of the school's pet gryphon.
I've had a lot of fun preparing fingerprints, blood spatters, and footprint casts for them.
June 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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It's always a proud moment when the CREST award certificates arrive.
A stack of certificates stating that my STEM club students have achieved their discovery award for the completion of their zombie apocalypse project.
April 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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I think most technicians have some hoarding tendencies, but I think it might be time to finally get rid of notes from training that I attended 17 years ago.
A document titled SciChem 2008, School Laboratory Safety Audit Seminar
April 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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I got this year's @cleapss.bsky.social mug at #TSTC25 yesterday. Another one for the collection!
A mug with the slogan 'Elephants don't even use toothpaste!' printed on it.
March 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Great day at the Tonbridge school Technicians' Convention yesterday. I particularly enjoyed the workshop on how to make a paper loudspeaker. It worked!
##TSTC25
March 29, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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I love getting a book that I've preordered ages ago. It's like past-me has sent me a present!
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A hardback copy of Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold.
March 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Trialling the magnetic fields practical using cut up twist ties instead of iron filings.
#TECHOGNITION
My hand holding a bar magnet. Attached to the magnet are red and silver pieces of twist tie, which have formed a very beautiful pattern showing the magnetic field around the magnet.
March 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The most important bit of morning prep. (In my office area, not a lab of course!)
#TECHOGNITION
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March 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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The STEM duck crew are ready to celebrate #TECHOGNITION day!
A purple #TECHOGNITION balloon surrounded by 4 rubber ducks. They are a pharmacist, Albert Einstein, a chemist, and an IT duck.
March 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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I can't decorate my prep room door for #TECHOGNITION due to not having an actual door, so this is the next best thing.
Behold, the entrance to my prep room.
The entrance way into a prep room. To the right is the teacher's area and whiteboard. To the left is a small bench piled with trays of science equipment ready to be distributed. Across the top of the entrance way is purple bunting and balloons.
March 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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My Anne Boleyn rubber duck is definitely not fascist!
A tattoo on my ankle, featuring a rubber duck dressed as Anne Boleyn. She is wearing Anne's iconic B necklace, her dress is green and she has a French hood covering her hair.
March 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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My new #TECHOGNITION badge looks great on my lanyard. Thank you @preproom.bsky.social and @techognition.bsky.social.
1 week to TECHOGNITION day!!
A lanyard decorated with a number of badges. There is a rubber duck, a lab rat (complete with lab coat and safety specs), one which says Let's Do Science, one which says Technician not Magician, and in between a golden infinity badge and a pride badge, a badge featuring the hashtag TECHOGNITION.
March 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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What's everyone reading this #WorldBookDay?
My lunchtime book is currently Blood Sisters by Sarah Gristwood
The front cover of the book Blood Sisters. The cover is red and features portraits of Margaret Beaufort, Margaret of York, and Elizabeth Woodville
March 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Apparently some technicians are decorating their prep room doors for #WorldBookDay. I'd love to join in, if only I had a door.
The way into my prep room, which is behind a partition in the lab. No door to be seen.
March 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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The fact that I can fit both bits of Boyle's Law apparatus in the same tray pleases me greatly!
Two different pieces of equipment used for Boyle's law, both from the same manufacturer, fitting perfectly next to each other in the same purple gratnell tray.
March 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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I just overheard a student misread haemoglobin as 'hammer goblin' and I think I'll call it that from now on!
#SciTeachUK
A joyful goblin with a massive mallet
February 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Too big to add to my collection, but what an awesome duck!
A giant hook-a-duck style rubber duck, in the water at West India Quay in London.
February 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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I was thrilled to see that some of my science heroes have memorials at Westminster Abbey
Memorial to Edmond Halley Memorial to Michael Faraday Memorial to Thomas Telford
February 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Seeing the sights in Glasgow.
Statue of the Duke of Wellington. He is wearing a traffic cone as a jaunty hat, which I'm told is a local tradition!
February 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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If there's a more annoying task for a physics technician than dismantling and resetting the motor kits, then I don't want to meet it!
The only one that comes close is plug wiring.
February 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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These child resistant packs are also dyspraxic technician resistant!
A button cell in a blister pack which is labelled as child resistant
February 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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STEM club on Monday often means an interesting array of items to be packed in my work bag on Sunday night!
Three pringles tubes and a selection of thirteen rubber ducks.
February 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Bicarbonate of soda 'invisible ink' at STEM club today. We revealed our hidden messages using turmeric solution.
#SciTeachUK
Pieces of paper with messages on them. The paper is yellow from turmeric and the writing appears reddish orange. One of the messages says I am getting a new cat today.
February 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Year 9 are looking at the steam engine this morning. I love hearing how excited they get!
A mamod model stationery engine
January 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM